FOUNDER STORY

With heartfelt excitement, I am thrilled to see Solo Mom United come to life.

It all started as a dream! A dream born from tears, pain, and a story meant to be learned from.

After walking through the arduous journey I was meant to live, I learned that I was fortunate to find resources and survive. I correct myself, not just survive, because every experience I've had has helped shape a stronger, more aware version of myself. I grew through adversity. I found resources that were not always visible or accessible, I missed opportunities simply because I didn’t know they existed, and I was often forced to make life decisions based on my condition as a single mother.

I felt alone! Alone in this world, raising my two daughters by myself. Responsible for their future, while also facing a professional world that often works against single mothers. I learned that the current professional environment is designed for two parents; a system where work hours can be alternated, responsibilities shared, and childcare balanced while still achieving professional growth and success.

That reality does not exist for a single parent, especially a single mother.

After exhausting every possible resource and every ounce of human effort to juggle single parenthood while meeting the demanding requirements of my profession as a physician, I realized that achieving both successfully was impossible. To continue working as a physician and maintain a higher income, I would have had to sacrifice my role as a present parent, and that would have directly affected my daughters’ mental and emotional well-being.

I was forced to choose between professional development and my children. Without hesitation, I chose my daughters!

I left my hospital position and started from scratch in a new career that allowed flexibility and a healthier work-life balance. That decision came at a high financial cost, but it never stopped me from fighting to build a better life for my children, with a present mother.

I deeply understand the value of being present, being there to drop your children off at school and wish them a great day. Being home when they return, ready to listen to their stories. As mothers, we read our children’s faces instinctively, we know when something isn’t right, and we are there for them in that moment.

I truly believe that motherhood should not be sacrificed for professional growth!

Rebuilding my life required immense sacrifice, long working hours, and continuous learning, especially about the resources available to single mothers. Along the way, I met many other single mothers walking similar paths. I realized how many of them were unaware of the opportunities and support systems that exist, simply because no one had guided them.

What we all shared was a sense of relief when we connected with someone who understood. We learned from one another. We felt seen.

That is how the seed of Solo Mom United grew in my heart and mind!

It took several years before I found the time and strength to shape it and bring it to life.

Solo Mom United exists for all single mothers, to remind them that life is not fixed, that difficult moments are not permanent, and that a better future can be built.

Most importantly, it exists to say one simple truth: We are not alone.